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Today is the Anniversary of the killings at Lekki Toll Gate, in Lagos, Nigeria. I
was not there but I was at home watching on TV.I was not there because I was not part of the protest. Not that I did not believe in the protest. We cannot all be part of it.
It had effects on the polity and I am a keen observer.
One year after and I am still surprised at how the narrative changed.
PMB was a brutal dictator. His saving Grace is that he managed to acquire a reputation for frugality. Otherwise, how do you explain those who knew him inside out still rooting for him?
A fool is said to be one who knows not and knows not that he does not know. What then do you make of one who knows and pretends not to know? Or one who like BAT, knows PMB, warns of his contagion and still goes ahead to install him?
Back to the Toll Gate and the deaths. It was live on TV. Ask Pat Utomi, Olu Phillips of Okota Election mayhem reports on Channels TV and DJ Switch.
The whole killings were well planned, except that those who died knew not of the plan.
First of all, the CCTC cameras were disabled. Why?
The Lights at the Toll Gate where just before commencement of the shooting on Live TV, ceased.
Was it fate or was it part of the plan that to disrupt the protest, there was a badly managed curfew?
Initially, the curfew was to commence by 4 pm but was moved to 9pm!
The shooting commenced by 7pm.
Amnesty International gave a timeline on Live TV of how soldiers moved from Bonny Camp to the Toll Gate.
The commander of the soldiers was fingered on Live TV.
But the whole narrative changed. PMB should be worried. Integrity is a precious possession. Being a revisionist is not exactly, precious.
Amnesty International lost its voice. CNN doubted the authenticity of its own story.
PMB has always been one with an eye on history.
He failed to crate home, Alhaji Umaru Dikko but has now made up for that with Nnamdi Kanu.
The Lekki killings and the inglorious attempt at cover up should for him be an icing on the cake of infamy.
Since then what has changed? If anything, the near perfection of the cover up has emboldened government into stupor. A stupor of insensitivity.
Naira is falling by the day and prices not surprisingly, for an import dependent Economy, are fast rising in tow. Government response?
Waiting for Godot!
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Good morning Elder P, thank you for this publication.
ReplyDeleteThe then frugality of PMB has been eroded with the present borrowing for "everything" in the county. Record has it that O J is 100% a better manager of resources than PMB. Project that should have been financed through PPP are being finance by debt. And I make bold to say that those projects cannot pay back the loans themselves.
Nigerians often celebrate mediocrity. What has this government achieved? When they ignored the main responsibility of protection of lives and properties.
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DeleteA leopard can never change its color,Buhari has been like that and those that imposed him on Nigerians are aware of that,but am yet to understand the magic they wanted to perform or they performed the magic by imposing him by all means,with a masterful deception and a wholesome manipulation.
ReplyDeleteBefore he came in as the president,I knew that he has nothing positive to offer.
The only remedy now, is for us to close our eyes in prayers and wait for the expiration of his government,unless,he will work for permutation.
Prof, this is savage
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